Creative Writing with Jan Fortune-Wood

Cost : £580 (pounds sterling)

Dates : Sat 19 – Sat 26 June 2010

Language : English

Join Jan Fortune-Wood for a week of creative writing workshops, mentoring and inspiration in the company of a small group of writers.

The workshops will focus on making your writing come to life, whether you are working on fiction or poetry. We will explore starting points, imagery and structure and ways of bringing precision and vividness to your language.

Each participant will have two half hour mentoring sessions during the week and there will be opportunities to share work in progress as well as time to write and relax in the beautiful surroundings.

NEW: Please note that a free ride up to Gardoussel from Nimes will be available on the 19th for up to four people - time depending on the majority arrival time. (Eg 9.55am to meet the Luton-Nimes flight). Contact sharon for more information.

Tutor

Jan Fortune-Wood has taught creative writing for the Open College of Art, The Writer’s House, the Arvon Foundation & Women on Tour in Spain and does mentoring work as part of the co-operative, Triskele Writes. Jan is a National Association of Writers in Education and Academi’s Writers on Tour scheme.

Her books include novels, ‘A Good Life’, ‘Dear Ceridwen’ and ‘The Standing Ground’ and poetry, ‘Particles of Life’ and ‘Stale Bread and Miracles’, a prose poetry collection which she performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

She is currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through the landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ Schrödinger and a novel that ranges across three generations and two continents, exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, ‘I’m Still Here’.

Price includes all course tuition, accommodation and meals. Single rooms will be provided to all participants unless otherwise requested.

To reserve your place on this event, please contact Sharon for a booking form (see email address below).

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Gardoussel, 30940 St Andre de Valborgne, France

France : +33 4 66 60 16 78 (from UK dial 0033 466 601 678)

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